by Matt

February 15, 2010

With the Democrats suddenly becoming interested in “bipartisanship” after the game changing election of Scott Brown, the GOP is going to have to be wary of the upcoming televised meets with the POTUS.  They need remeber that the Democrats had all last year to let them sit at the table, and they didn’t.  They had all of 2009 to “reach across the aisle,” but they name-called and ridiculed them instead.  These new calls for cooperation are nothing more than political necessity. A necessity that the Democrats will use in an attempt to manipulate both the GOP, and public opinion.

I come to this conclusion from several factors.  One is that the Democrats will have a proposal in place in advance of the February 25^th meeting.  While that seems innocuous, it takes on a new meaning when it has been discussed that the Democrats are working on a way to use the reconciliation process to pass a bill in the event that the meetings do not achieve the desired result, which is GOP capitulation.  I would take it to mean that they are already in the process of, or have completed, all the back-room deals needed to get their plans passed.

Another factor to consider is that Obama’s poll numbers are in the tank, and that the GOP is gaining on the Democrats in public opinion polling.  Let’s face it, they had a year to pass something.  The GOP was irrelevant, and could not have done a single thing to stop them.  The Democrats called the GOP the “party of no” all last year, even though they weren’t involved in the process.  As time ran out, they stopped themselves by refusing to compromise among themselves, and by making so many backroom deals, that their bills became near paradoxes.  They are on the ropes, and they appear to be floundering (because they are).  They need to do something drastic to regain the initiative, and take the  momentum of the Conservatives.

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